Tim Bunce wrote: > On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 12:43:49PM +0100, Simon Oliver wrote: > >>Would it be possible to get DBI::PurePerl + pure perl drivers (DBD::ADO >>and DBD::AnyData) into core perl. That would start the road to a >>guaranteed DBMS implementation on all platforms. >> > > If you're going to put DBI::PurePerl into the perl distribution > then you might as well put the whole DBI there. It's not very big.
Defintiely. And don't forget dbish and friends! > Then there's the whole issue of which drivers to include or not. One way to go would be to include *all* pure perl drivers, there aren't that many of them. (But wait for the next release of AnyData, the current one stinks :-). Another thing to consider is that if the Perl community doesn't decide these things, other communities will. I just learned that Debian Linux comes with my ancient DBD::RAM rather than the newer DBD::AnyData. Each Linux distribution (and other kinds of distributions as well I'd guess) makes choices about the modules to include and they do often package in the DBI with *their* selection of drivers. So it might as well be us who makes the selection. -- Jeff
